I’m deep in the lab engineering the Pixora transformation engine using libvips + Go, and I had to make a call on caching: Redis vs. Local Disk.
Common mistake: Using Redis for everything.
Reality: RAM is fast, but RAM is expensive. If I cache every t...
Most devs infrastructure products are built assuming:
Fast internet
Unlimited bandwidth
US/Europe users
But millions of users aren't in those conditions.
That's one reason we're building PixoraCloud differently.
Building for Africa?
What's your big...
Every startup idea looks perfect...
until you start building.
The first version of PixoraCloud looked amazing on paper.
Then reality hit.
We discovered:
Some features weren't necessary
Some APIs were too complicated
Some ideas solved our problem, no...
As developers, we’ve all been there. You’re shipping a feature, you need to deliver images, and you reach for the standard industry "media cloud."
Everything is great until you look at the source code of your own application. Your clean, semantic pr...